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This easily disprovable theory was said to be the absolute secure proof of the Copernican system!
He was, however, free to think about Copernican theory, but he could not teach it or write about it.
In the Harmonices Mundi he showed that planetary motion in a Copernican universe was complex but mathematically concordant.
At that time, before the telescope, the evidence for the Copernican system was not very compelling.
But also for the first time in print he came out clearly in favour of the Copernican system with the sun at the centre.
He also became an advocate of the controversial Copernican theory of the solar system, which he often defended in public debates.
He thus moved the universe from a Copernican Sun-centered system to a Sun located far from the galactic center in one of the spiral arms.
Suppose I decide that I believe the Ptolemaic system is more plausible than the Copernican system.
A paradigm of a scientific revolution in Kuhn's sense would be the Copernican revolution.
For the first time, Galileo came out in print unequivocally in favour of the Copernican astronomy.
Later the same year a German visitor left with Galileo the first book published by Johann Kepler, which was enthusiastically Copernican.
There was the Galilean defeat and the Copernican defeat and the Darwinian defeat and the Einsteinian defeat.
Only after Galileo had become famous through his discoveries in the area of mechanics, dynamics and optics, did he admit his Copernican position in print.
Making the orbits elliptical made the Copernican system more accurate.
This boom in cosmographical imagery in the 1650s seems to reflect a growing public awareness of the Copernican issue, which can also be attested from other sources.
In the absence of such evidence for parallax, Tycho Brahe, the 16th-century astronomer, had not been favourably disposed to Copernican theory.
More important still, there in the sky was a miniature Copernican system, visible to the aided eye.
It was what the Copernican system would look like if Earth was made to stay at rest.
The publication, widely circulated in Europe, was the first definitive account of the new Copernican system of the heavens.
He had been warned not to hold or teach the Copernican system, so inevitably he got himself into deep trouble with the Inquisition.
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The young astronomer, though apian's pupil, was an avowed Copernican and the destined master and friend of Kepler.
The Copernican doctrine of the motion of the earth was one of his obnoxious heresies.
But there is nothing Copernican in it except that he believed it to be a revolution.
The Copernican System was not recognized for more than a century.
Against Galileo, the war against the Copernican theory was concentrated.
Remember that the old Copernican difficulty had never been removed.
They very nearly failed to assimilate the Copernican cosmogony.
The triumph of the Copernican system is now at last supreme.
He mistakenly believed that a demonstration of the Copernican doctrine was within his grasp.
The crucial factor is that from the point of view of the Copernican system, it was possible to explain why the Ptolemaic system failed, and failed just at the point it did.
My surprise reached a climax, however, when I found incidentally that he was ignorant of the Copernican Theory and of the composition of the Solar System.
Third of all, the Copernican system had built the possibility of stepping into the era of mediated reality, by technique, different tools and instruments.
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